Threadless Artist Quotes & Sayings

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold
that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give
up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will
never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be de-
struction. — Rebecca Solnit

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity. — Andrew Keen

Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on earth one was born, to become heir to Western civilization's ancestry, one need only pledge allegiance to reason and individual liberty-the civilized, life-affirming values that represent the "West at its best." — Terri Runnels

There was no fear of sandpaper earth, no sense of danger from a bare-skinned spill, for the boy was a child - a six-foot, one-inch growing child who knew nothing of accident, injury, dismemberment, death - who would study those lessons tomorrow, thank you, but not today. Today, it would be sufficient to be wild and free. — Tony Taylor

The body is reached through the spirit. First you have to heal the soul. Then you can work on the body. — Mahtob Mahmoody

You become a winner because you're good at losing. — Seth Godin

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants. — Pat Sajak

In the first year of my grief, there were times when I felt like hiding my personal story of loss and other times when I wanted to wear a sign on my body that read "Be nice to me, I'm grieving," or "Don't tick me off; I've already got the world on my shoulders," or maybe even "BEWARE - don't upset the widow!" I needed a variety of signs that I could switch out depending on my daily mood. — Elizabeth Berrien

Then little Gerda said the Lord's Prayer; the cold was so intense that she could see her own breath; it came out of her mouth like smoke. Her breath became thicker and thicker, and took the form of little angels who grew larger and larger as soon as they touched the ground. All had helmets on their heads, and lances and shields in their hands; their numbers increased, and when Gerda had finished her prayer a whole legion stood around her. They trust their lances against the horrible snow-flakes, so that the latter flew into a hundred pieces; and little Gerda went forward safely and cheerfully. The angels stroked her hands and feet, so that she felt the cold less, and she hastened on to the Snow Queen's castle. — Hans Christian Andersen

If Possible, Make Peace. If Not, Put A Full Stop. — Monojit Dutta

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success. — Arianna Huffington

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics. — Mark Gatiss

Hawke continued to walk beside his lieutenant - a man who, as a result of his incredible feats during the battle in San Francisco, now had a fan club. Complete with "I (heart) Judd" and "Judd Is My Boyfriend" memorabilia. In the normal course of events, civilians wouldn't have gotten anywhere near the former Arrow, but it had been impossible to evacuate the entire city prior to the Pure Psy attack. — Nalini Singh

When we invoke stillness within our consciousness, we have the power to recover the child we forgot that we once were. — Daniel St. Clair